Bach and Belle (and Sebastian)

Movie Reviews & Stories
Forget the love triangle. The Way He Looks
gives us the love rhombus. Giovana loves Leonardo but Leonardo loves
Gabriel and Gabriel loves Belle and Sebastian. The film, from Brazilian
writer-d
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Rabies, replicants and revolution.

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Professor AP Kryza is currently stuck outside Rapid City,
S.D., a victim in the icy grasp of winter storm Astro. He took a break
from nagging his sister to show him North by Northwest filming
lo
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On thin ice.

Movie Reviews & Stories
The family of four lies on the bed, limbs intertwined.
They’re Swedish. So of course they’re gorgeous—they look ripped from a
Hanna Andersson catalog, down to their matching thermal underw
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Jon Stewart goes to Iran.

Movie Reviews & Stories
Rosewater is a torture film in which suffering is
beside the point—it’s a lovely romp in the fields of tyranny. Gael
García Bernal, who plays unjustly imprisoned Iranian-Canadian journalist
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Remembering 40 years of misguided film criticism.

Movie Reviews & Stories
Everyone’s had opinions they regret. Part of being a critic means having those opinions published and preserved.
No one nails every review, especially when overnighting a challenging movie. Even
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With every move he makes, another chance he takes.

Movie Reviews & Stories
History happens in real time in Citizenfour, a
behind-closed-doors account of Edward Snowden’s decision to reveal the
dizzying extent of government surveillance programs. Much of Laura
Poitr
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Christopher Nolan aces art class but flunks astronomy.

Movie Reviews & Stories
Christopher Nolan is Hollywood’s most masterful huckster: a
blockbuster auteur who uses incredible sleight of hand to elevate into
art what other directors would leave as garbage. He is the ki
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